[lsp12]

If so...I have a question for you

I have recently started clearing my new allotment and found loads of raspberry cane cuttings which had been dumped there. A number of them are now budding and I am going to try and plant them.

I should be lucky if they were to thrive (and I would be happy to hear of your experiences in similar attempts) and I would like to know what type for raspberries they are: the canes are not similar to any I have seen before: brown/coppery with tiny spines (excuse my English...I was never learn much horticultural English.... till now

Thanks in advance for any pointer!
Laurence

[Kate and her Ducks]

Not knowledgable about raspberries but think you will have to wait till they fruit before you know what they are.

In my limited experience you shouldn't have a problem getting them to take, I still get them coming up where they were years ago. Getting rid of them is the problem! I cut back my autumn fruiting ones a couple of years ago after fruiting. The cut stems were left in a corner over winter. The following summer I thought they would make good pea sticks and they sprouted!

[celjaci]

: the canes are not similar to any I have seen before: brown/coppery with tiny spines (excuse my English...I was never learn much horticultural English.... till now
Laurence

Sounds more like a japanese wineberry to me - bit of a novelty really you'd be better of getting a good variety of raspberry next autumn

[woodburner]

: the canes are not similar to any I have seen before: brown/coppery with tiny spines (excuse my English...I was never learn much horticultural English.... till now
Laurence

Sounds more like a japanese wineberry to me - bit of a novelty really you'd be better of getting a good variety of raspberry next autumn

Actually one of my raspberry varieties is a bit prickly, but I don't know which of the three it is as I lost the labels. All of them are coppery brown though.  :blink:

[PAULW]

Autumn Bliss are quite prickly

[lsp12]

Thanks to you all for your feedback! Sounds like I could be in for nice surprises either way... if not, well will do better next year
Cheers Laurence

[andreadon]

don't worry, laurence, you don't really need to do much to raspberries (not sure if it turns out to be a wineberry), they grow pretty much anywhere and in pretty much anything!
they only need a bout 5" (13cm) deep of soil as well, so you can put them in the random piece of ground that you can't get your fork into!
 
(but they do prefer sun and not too much wind)